Budolph liebmann



(No Model.)

R. LIEBMANN.

BUTTON.

No. 390,869. Patented Ont. 9, 1888.

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ilNiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RUDOLPH LIEBMANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,869, dated October 9, 1888.

Application tiled July v20, ISSS.

T0 MZ wtom it may concern:

Beit known that I, RUDOLPH LIEEMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Buttons, of which the following is a specifloat-ion.

This invention has for its object to vprovide a novel button for garments, which can be attached quickly'and conveniently, and which is strong, durable, and efficient, and is so constructed that when attached its fastenngs will be concealed and able to resist the usual strains to which but-tons are subjected. This object I accomplish by the features of construction hereinafter described,and specifically pointed out in the claim, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a sectional view of a button enibodying my invention, Fig. 2, a detail View of the attaching wire, and Fig. 3 a perspective view looking at the metallic back-plate of the button. f

Sniilarlettersindicate corresponding parts.

Inthe drawingsthe letter A designates the head of the button, and Bis its back-plate,

which can be secured to the head in any welll ton for button-holes, consisting of the buttonknown manner. In the back-plate are formed two perforations, a and b, which are located near to the periphery ofthe same and are preferably placed diametrically opposite to each other. rlhe ends of a wire, C, which is bent in the form shown in Fig. 2, are passed through said perforations, and the shorter eX- terior end is bent outward and upward to form a hook, c. The larger exterior end, cl, of the wire, which is made pointed, is bent back upon itself, so that it can be made to engage with the hook c,in the manner of a safety-pin. The wire C is made of a flexible material, and the portion of the same lying within the button is soldered or otherwise secured to the inner surface of the bacl -plate B, so as to prevent the fastener from turning laterally'. After the wire O has been properly applied to the backplate, the latter and the head A are united in any well-known manner.

A suitable iilling,

Serial No. 280.465.

(No model.)

The perforation of the metallic back-plate at the points a b places such perforations within the circumference of the loackplate,A so that the attaching wire passing through said perforations is not exposed at the periphery of 63 i such plate or at the periphery of the button.

This is important, first, to conceal the attach ing-wire, and, second, to so place and locate it that it will in no wayinterfere with the engagement and disengagement of a button-hole with the button-head.

W'hat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an improved article of manufacture, a buthead A, the dat metallic backplate B, having its edge rigidly fixed to the button-head, and provided with two perforations, a b, diametrica-lly opposite each other,and located entirely Within the circumference of the plate, and the attaching-wire placed inside the back-plate, projecting rearward through the said perforations within the circumference of the backplate and having its ends formed, respectively, into the hook c and pointed pin d, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereofI have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RUDOLPH LTEBMANN. [as] Witnesses:

W. C. HAUEE, A. FABER DU FAUR, Jr. 

